SunOS4 and Sun i386,, ifconfig -a plumb

From: Raymond Moyers <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
Date: Fri May 3 15:53:10 2002

On Friday 03 May 2002 15:01, you wrote:

> My first real quandry is how to get the machines ethernet interface up and
> talking. I have ie0 set up correctly with the right address, and I have a
> default route in the route table... However pinging anything (including
> ie0's IP, excluding 127.0.0.1) gives me a "Network is down" response.

 how about the plumb directive ?
 read the init scripting, you should find a plumb directive to ifconfig
 if im not mistaken, that has to be issued before the interface will
 work

 try grepping your scripting for the keyword plumb

 ( sunspeak for plumbing i suppose, taken from the context )

 Sun:/etc/init.d# grep plumb *
asppp: system("ifconfig " $2 " unplumb")
rootusr: /sbin/ifconfig le0 plumb
sysid.net: /sbin/ifconfig -a plumb > /dev/null 2>&1
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 15:53:10 BST